Wednesday

by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar

Wednesday Addams is enrolled at Nevermore Academy — a school for supernatural outcasts — after being expelled from her latest normie school. While navigating new friendships, a forbidden romance, and the social politics of a school full of vampires, werewolves, and psychics, Wednesday uncovers a monster mystery that connects to her family's dark past.

40 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Ajax Petropolus — Nevermore's sweetest gorgon — a chill stoner-type who wears a beanie over his snake hair and turned himself to stone once by accidentally looking in a
• Bianca Barclay — Nevermore's queen bee and its most conflicted siren — she can make anyone do anything with her voice and lives in terror that nothing in her life is r
• Divina — A siren student at Nevermore and Bianca's close friend — navigates the school's social politics with the musical talent and interpersonal finesse that
• Enid Sinclair — Wednesday's roommate and emotional opposite — a werewolf who can't wolf out, decorates with color, hugs without permission, and refuses to stop being
• Eugene Otinger — Nevermore's beekeeper — small, sweet, earnest, and the person who earned Wednesday's loyalty by being genuinely himself without asking her to be anyth
• Garrett Gates — The dead boy at the center of the old mystery — a Gates family son killed at Nevermore years ago, whose death was pinned on Gomez Addams and whose sis
• Gomez Addams — Wednesday's father — a short, passionate, absurdly devoted husband and father who was once accused of murder at Nevermore and whose family name carrie
• Goody Addams — Wednesday's ancestor from the 1600s — a psychic outcast who stopped Crackstone's original massacre and now appears in visions to guide her descendant
• Grandmama Addams — The Addams family matriarch — Gomez's mother, a witch-like figure who represents the older generation of Addams eccentricity.
• Joseph Crackstone — A dead pilgrim with a grudge that outlasted his body — the founding father of Jericho who burned outcasts alive and got resurrected four centuries lat
• Kent — A Nevermore student dating Divina — one of the background students who round out the school's social ecosystem.
• Larissa Weems — Nevermore's principal — a shapeshifter who was Morticia's college roommate and rival, now running the school with an iron grip on appearances because
• Laurel Gates — Nevermore's botany teacher — except she's not. She's the last Gates, hiding behind a fake name and a pleasant smile, engineering the destruction of ou
• Lurch — The Addams family butler — seven feet of silent loyalty who communicates in groans and plays the harpsichord with surprising feeling.
• Morticia Addams — Wednesday's mother — ethereally beautiful, calmly morbid, a former Nevermore student whose own dark secrets and her daughter's refusal to become her c
• Pugsley Addams — Wednesday's younger brother — chubby, cheerful, and the target of her protective violence, which is how Addams siblings say 'I love you.'
• Sheriff Donovan Galpin — Jericho's sheriff — a normie cop with a dead outcast wife, a son he doesn't understand, and a grudge against Nevermore that blinds him to the monster
• Thing — A sentient disembodied hand — Wednesday's most loyal companion, spy, and the one member of the Addams household who followed her to Nevermore because
• Tyler Galpin — The sheriff's son, the barista with the nice smile, the boy next door — and underneath all of it, the Hyde that's been killing people in the woods, tr
• Uncle Fester — Wednesday's uncle — bald, electrified, on the run from something, and the family member most likely to show up unannounced with exactly the help you d
• Wednesday Addams — Nevermore Academy's newest student and the girl most likely to solve your murder — a deadpan psychic with a cello, a disembodied hand for a best frien
• Xavier Thorpe — An artist whose paintings come alive — talented, brooding, attracted to Wednesday in the way moths are attracted to things that will definitely burn t
• Yoko Tanaka — Nevermore's resident vampire — fashionable, aloof, and navigating immortal social politics with sunglasses that never come off.

Locations

• Jericho — The normie town below Nevermore — a picture-postcard New England village that profits from outcast tourism while harboring a centuries-old resentment
• Nevermore Academy — A boarding school for supernatural outcasts — part Hogwarts, part asylum, entirely gothic, built on the ground where a pilgrim tried to burn freaks al
• Nevermore Greenhouse — The school's botanical greenhouse — where Ms. Thornhill teaches botany and secretly cultivates the nightshade compounds she uses to control the Hyde.
• Pilgrim World — Jericho's tourist attraction — a theme park celebrating the town's founding that sanitizes a massacre into a family-friendly colonial experience.
• The Addams Family — A dynasty of gleeful weirdos — wealthy, morbid, loving, and completely uninterested in being normal, which makes them the most functional family in a
• The Addams Mansion — The Addams family home — a Victorian gothic estate where the furniture bites, the plants are carnivorous, and the overall ambiance says 'haunted house
• The Gates Family — Jericho's founding family — descendants of Joseph Crackstone who maintained his anti-outcast vendetta for four centuries until only Laurel was left to
• The Nightshades — Nevermore's secret student society — hidden library, dark rituals, generational membership, and the kind of exclusivity that Wednesday initially refus
• The Outcast Forest — The dark woods between Nevermore and Jericho — where the Hyde hunts, the investigation leads, and every bad decision in the show gets made after dark.
• The Rave'N — Nevermore's school dance — the annual formal where outcast students pretend to be normal teenagers for one night, and where Wednesday's viral dance sc
• The Weathervane — Jericho's coffee shop — where normie and outcast worlds overlap, where Tyler works the espresso machine, and where Wednesday conducts interrogations d

Items

• Nero — Wednesday's pet scorpion — the only companion she chose voluntarily, because scorpions don't ask for emotional vulnerability.
• Normie-Outcast Divide — The central social tension of the show — the wall between supernatural outcasts and 'normal' humans, maintained by fear, ignorance, tourism revenue, a
• Psychic Visions — Wednesday's involuntary sight — flashes of past and future triggered by touch, arriving like migraines and leaving clues that she treats as evidence r
• The Hyde — The rarest and most feared outcast type — a monstrous transformation controlled by a 'master,' turning the carrier into a living weapon who may or may
• Wednesday's Cello — The one instrument that matches Wednesday's emotional range — deep, mournful, and capable of making a room full of people uncomfortable in the most be
• Wednesday's Typewriter — A vintage manual typewriter — because Wednesday wouldn't be caught dead using a computer, and the clacking keys provide the appropriate soundtrack for

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